1,000 Out of Poverty

The 1,000 Out of Poverty Project is a coalition of five agencies throughout Santa Clara County committed to moving 1,000 people out of poverty. The project disrupts how nonprofit and government agencies address poverty by focusing on the results of unemployed, employable adults moving out of poverty through multi-agency interdisciplinary services using common outcome metrics.

The focus is not only on poverty alleviation, but on poverty reduction, and the coalition will test the best strategies to reach our goal. Each organization utilizes the strategies they believe work best for the populations they serve, e.g., job development, benefits assistance, client advocacy, education and training, self-help networks, micro-enterprises, social enterprises, asset development, and self-sufficiency planning.

Each of these organizations use a common tool to measure their results called the Step Up Self-Sufficiency Matrix. This measure focuses on food, housing, healthcare, education, and income growth.

THE GOAL

To move 1,000 people out of poverty.

THE STRATEGY

The committed organizations will use their existing strategies to both alleviate and reduce poverty for 1,000 clients. Organizations will assist one another with services needed by each other’s clients by using a referral system.

THE DIFFERENCE

Outputs are typically based on the amount of services received. This movement measures how many clients get out of poverty based on a client-centered and data-driven design.

A COMMON MEASURE

The Step Up Self-Sufficiency Matrix will be used to measure the successes of the project. This tool focuses on five issue areas of food, housing, health care, education, and income growth.

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OUR MISSIONWe seek to transform community awareness and
generate the political will to create systems change
that enables individuals and families to step up out
of poverty in Santa Clara County.

OUR VISION
Our goal is to reduce poverty and to increase economic
opportunity in Santa Clara County. We are committed to
creating a community that is thriving and self-sufficient;
where everyone has access to affordable health care,
sufficient nutritious food, decent affordable housing,
meaningful educational and career opportunities, and
reliable income that meets their basic financial needs.